“Vachel, the stars are out..” – Anniversary today of the death of poet Vachel Lindsay
Last night at Tibet House in New York – Patti Smith and Philip Glass, joint recipients of the award, the Art of Freedom.
Upcoming – Monday night in London – Burroughs and Bacon – Barry Miles will be speaking on the relationship between William Burroughs and Francis Bacon.
A deep dive into the archives of Jack Kerouac – Brett Sigurdson is interviewed by David S Wills for his Beatdom Substack regarding his (Sigurdson’s) illuminating research and discovery focusing on two of Kerouac’s novels – Pic and On The Road – “‘Jess ’Maginary Lines in People’s Heads’ – How Jack Kerouac’s Archive and His Problematic Novella Rewrites the Myths of On the Road”.
The full essay is available here in the current issue of Contemporary Literature
Wills’ and Sigurdson’s interview can be accessed – here
Kramer‘s Shimmy-Disc re-release of Gregory Corso’s Die On Me
We’ve been featuring his video portraits in the last couple of months. Here’s another one
– Gregory Corso and Marianne Faithfull:
And The Fugs (Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Ken Weaver..) – Chuck Smith‘s much-anticipated Fugs documentary is now out.
and coming soon David Liver and Thomas Burstyn‘s Tuli, Tuli, Tuli – 1000 Ways To Be Joyfully Revolted”
and tomorrow in San Francisco (we’ve mentioned this movie before) Alystyre Julian‘s documentary on Anne Waldman, Outrider
“The Last Gathering of the Beats”, the legendary 1965 photo-shoot outside of City Lights. Simon Warner announces an in-depth look in upcoming postings in Rock and The Beat Generation: “Who organised it, who appeared in it, why did it become dubbed ‘the last gathering’ and what lessons can we take away from this extraordinary bohemian bash on the sidewalk and backstreet adjacent to world’s most famous paperback purveyor? We'(ll) interview poets and novelists, journalists and historians, to put this unique event in context.”
Stay tuned